by Tdarcos » Thu May 29, 2014 1:25 pm
pinback wrote:Look, don't kid yourself. My lemonade is world-class. My lemonade is the best you will ever have. And I'm making it again.
Does it make me a bad person that all I want to do is find some little 8 year old kid selling cups of lemonade on the roadside for 25 cents a go, set up shop right next to him and put the little fucker out of business?
No, I don't think so. It will teach him the basic tenets of capitalism.
25c seems low. How much do lemons, sugar and styrofoam cups cost these days?
Summer of 1969 I was running a lemonade stand in front of a dry cleaners in Sacramento, California (I got permission to put my stand up in front of their store). I would have been 8 years old then. I sold it for I think it was either 5 or 10c a cup. Only did it one day, but after I covered the expenses, I think I made $20, which is pretty damn good for an 8-year-old in 1969.
With the typical bottle of not very good commercial processed lemonade selling for $1.50, these days I think anyone can reasonably expect to get 50c for a really good cup of fresh lemonade.
Don't sell yourself short.
[quote="pinback"]Look, don't kid yourself. My lemonade is world-class. My lemonade is the best you will ever have. And I'm making it again.
Does it make me a bad person that all I want to do is find some little 8 year old kid selling cups of lemonade on the roadside for 25 cents a go, set up shop right next to him and put the little fucker out of business?
No, I don't think so. It will teach him the basic tenets of capitalism.[/quote]
25c seems low. How much do lemons, sugar and styrofoam cups cost these days?
Summer of 1969 I was running a lemonade stand in front of a dry cleaners in Sacramento, California (I got permission to put my stand up in front of their store). I would have been 8 years old then. I sold it for I think it was either 5 or 10c a cup. Only did it one day, but after I covered the expenses, I think I made $20, which is pretty damn good for an 8-year-old in 1969.
With the typical bottle of not very good commercial processed lemonade selling for $1.50, these days I think anyone can reasonably expect to get 50c for a really good cup of fresh lemonade.
Don't sell yourself short.